Professional DNA
Julius Erving: PRIMARY SCORER
Outside shooting · 1986-87 · 60 games
85
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Julius Erving?
The evidence
Julius Erving · Outside shooting: 85th percentile
Julius Erving: what moved most is Rebounding
The read
What they are, the role they held and what sets them apart. Every line comes from a figure further down this same page.
- What they arePRIMARY SCORER
- RoleFeatured starter: 32.0 minutes per game across 60 games
- What sets them apartOutside shooting · 85th percentile
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 285 players with a sample in 1986-87. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring84th percentile
16.8 points per game
- Playmaking74th percentile
3.2 assists per game
- Outside shooting85th percentile
- Defensive impact53th percentile
DBPM 0.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding66th percentile
4.4 rebounds per game
Strengths
- Outside shooting85th percentile
Very high ·
- Scoring84th percentile
Very high · 16.8 points per game
Limitations
No measured axis falls below his league's median. What follows are the limits of the read, not weak spots in the player.
- Axes without enough sample
Finishing at the rim
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
Recent change
Scoring: 99th percentile → 84th percentile (-15) · Playmaking: 83th percentile → 74th percentile (-9) · Rebounding: 85th percentile → 66th percentile (-19)
- 1981-8285th percentile
81 games · 34.4 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 99th percentile
- Playmaking
- 83th percentile
- Rebounding
- 85th percentile
- 1982-8383th percentile
72 games · 33.6 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 93th percentile
- Playmaking
- 81th percentile
- Rebounding
- 83th percentile
- 1983-8485th percentile
77 games · 34.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 96th percentile
- Playmaking
- 84th percentile
- Rebounding
- 85th percentile
- 1984-8574th percentile
78 games · 32.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 90th percentile
- Playmaking
- 73th percentile
- Rebounding
- 74th percentile
- 1985-8668th percentile
74 games · 33.4 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 87th percentile
- Playmaking
- 76th percentile
- Rebounding
- 68th percentile
- 1986-8766th percentile
60 games · 32.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 84th percentile
- Playmaking
- 74th percentile
- Rebounding
- 66th percentile
Context
1986-87 · 60 games · 32.0 minutes per game · Percentile against 285 measured players in 1986-87 · SportiveWorld own data
FactDerivedAssumption
What this does not prove
- Percentiles compare inside the NBA. Outside it they do not mean the same thing.
- It portrays the 1986-87 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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2026-10-12
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